To study the trends in a firm’s cost of goods sold (COGS), the analyst should standardize the cost of goods sold numbers to common size basis by dividing COGS by:
Common Size statements normalize balance sheets and income statements and allow the analysts to more easily compare performance across firms and for a single firm over time. A vertical common-size balance sheet expresses all balance sheet accounts as a percentage of total assets. With a vertical common-size income statement, all income statements are divided by sales.
5, 11, 32, 65, ?, 389
100 180 294 448 648 ?
Select the number from among the given options that can replace the question mark (?) in the following series.
2, 6, 12, 20, ?, ?
5 29 ? 569 1703 3401
...8 20 36 56 80 ?
398 308 228 158 98 ?
23 48 98 198 ? 798
...105 107 111 114 ? 127
840 400 180 ? 15 -12.5
...22 39 58 81 ? 141
